BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.

Subject: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 07:06 PM

I argued against Dennis Kucinich being the presidential candidate, saying that he was instead a 'point maker' and leader of causes.
Tonight at the Democratic convention, he showed what I meant. Do whatever it takes to see a repeat of his short but dynamic speech! (PBS will no doubt re-run it)

   He had folks cheering and dancing as he laid out EXACTLY what having 8 years of Republican control has meant. I hope Obama uses Kunicich's talents wisely during the campaign, as the man can really evoke the images we need.

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 07:11 PM

Tonight, Bill? It's only 5p in Denver...I thought they didn't really get going until 7p? I don't see it on youtube, yet. Hope Cspan runs it.

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 09:07 PM

Apparently he was on during 6-7pm our time, but damned if I could find him on PBS or Cspan. I did find a text of it HERE

Ah, Cspan has it online: HERE.

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 09:14 PM

Bill, thanks so much for bringing this to our attention. I would have missed it otherwise and that would have been a shame. He is so terrific. I wish they would all show that kind of enthusiasm and tell it like it is in such a way as he does. We could really electrify Americans with that leading up to the election, imo.

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 09:21 PM

Thanks!

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 11:07 PM

Loved it when I tuned in specifically for him.

And somewhere in the government there is a place for him as well. There are certainly ways to use him outside of his Congressional seat here in Ohio......Ways which may well serve the country better.

This might be the guy to take on the Energy situation.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 11:23 PM

He's a hell raiser! Great speech!

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: CarolC
Date: 26 Aug 08 - 11:54 PM

The expressions on some of the people's faces looked like they were thinking, "Hey, this guy is great! I wonder why he didn't run for president himself!"

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: DougR
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 01:21 AM

Dennis is a funny man. I really like him. We sorely need some humor in the United States Congress.

DougR

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: Barry Finn
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 03:24 AM

Dennis didn't just grow a pair of balls, he's been saying what others won't say for a long time now, it's a wonder he hasn't been dropped from the sky. It's to bad he didn't have a shot at the oval & it's to bad Bama didn't pick him as his VP of choice & it's to bad that the rest of the democratic congrasses can't grow a pair like his.
Hopefully when Obama's in he'll have Dennis's mouth in his ear.

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 09:22 AM

Dennis Kucinich is the rarest of rarities in American politics. He's an honest man with the guts to risk all and say what he really thinks. I think Ron Paul may be one of those too.

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: GUEST,Jack The Sailor
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 10:46 AM

I don't believe that about Paul. If Paul believes what he says about Healthcare and the economy, he is profoundly misinformed.

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: GUEST,Neil D
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 02:54 PM

Go Dennis!

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 05:33 PM

He may indeed be misinformed on some matters, Jack. But I like what he says about foreign policy.

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 05:34 PM

I don't think that isolationism is a realistic option for the USA.

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 05:37 PM

I think that ceasing aggressive overseas military interventions and "pre-empitive wars" (meaning: outright aggression) is a realistic option. I don't call that isolationism. I call it responsible behaviour. The world in general does not want the USA as its policeman, it wants the USA as a friendly trading partner.

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 05:40 PM

Ron Paul's positions are attractive. His policies are naive.

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 05:43 PM

Possibly...

Anyway, he's mighty refreshing when it comes to Republican spokesmen.

I prefer Kucinich's grasp of the overall situation to Ron Paul's, I'm just saying that Ron Paul has some policy positions that I like too.

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: GUEST,Jack the Sailor
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 06:30 PM

If he were a Republican spokesman, maybe, but he is a fringe congressman. He's planning to have his own protest convention next week isn't he?

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Aug 08 - 06:50 PM

I hope he does.

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: gnu
Date: 28 Aug 08 - 06:25 AM

Couldn't find it, kat... not that it's not there... maybe I just need more tea.

I did catch most of Hilary's address... wow!

Subject: RE: BS: Kucinich doing what he does best.
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 02:50 PM

He just keep on doing what he does best:

Remembering 9/11 and Moving Towards a Re-United States

Dear Friend,

We suffer in our remembrance of 9/11, because of the terrible loss of innocent lives on that grim day. We also suffer because 9/11 was seized as an opportunity to run a political agenda, which has set America on a course of the destruction of another nation and the destruction of our own Constitution. And we have become less secure as a result of the warped practice of pursing peace through the exercise of pre-emptive military strength.

It is not simply 9/11 that needs to be remembered. We also need to remember the politicization of 9/11 and the polarizing narrative which followed, locking us into endless conflict, a war on terror which has wrought further terror worldwide and which has severely damaged our standing worldwide as an honorable, compassionate nation. As we were all victims of 9/11, so we have become victims of the interpretation of 9/11.

Before the Congress adjourns, I will bring forth a new proposal for the establishment of a National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation, which will have the power to compel testimony and gather official documents to reveal to the American people not only the underlying deception which has divided us, but in that process of truth seeking set our nation on a path of reconciliation.

The truth can move us forward, as a unified whole, so that we can one day become a re-United States. 9/11 is the day the world changed. It is the day America embraced a metaphor of war. If we are open to truth and reconciliation, we may one day be able, once again, to embrace peace.

Read full article HERE.